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Joe Fig, Inka Essenhigh, 2005

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Currently on view in the group show "Redux" at New York's Cristin Tierney Gallery (through Feb. 4) are two works by Joe Fig, both related to his 2009 book on interviews, Inside the Painter's Studio. He's also included in the exhibition "Small Worlds" at the Toledo Museum of Art [through Mar. 25]. For the book, Fig spoke with dozens of painters about their practices and the quotidian life. The interviews also resulted in a series of diorama-like sculptures showing the artists at work. Here, he talks about his model of New York painter Inka Essenhigh in her studio.—BRIAN BOUCHER

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